Nazi poster sparks outrage

25th June 2010

The poster has caused outrage in Poznan

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Owners of an art gallery in Poznan are facing jail for displaying a giant poster of a naked Mickey Mouse laying in front of a large swastika, next to the city’s old synagogue.

Located on Wroniecka Street, and a minute’s walk from the city’s Old Market square, the billboard has caused outrage with locals and councillors alike and there have been suggestions that it actively promotes fascism - an offence which carries a three year prison sentence in Poland.

“Imagine we have some tourists from Israel coming to see the former synagogue and they are faced with this enormous swastika slap bang in the city centre just 60-odd years after the war. This is a tremendous scandal. For me it ...

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